WADA names cycling doping expert to spearhead RUSADA rebuild

(Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency has appointed former war crimes investigator Peter Nicholson to help troubled Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) overhaul its anti-doping programme. Nicholson, an Australian who was also part of the 2015 Cycling Independent Reform Commission, will lead the project to rebuild Russia's anti-doping programme and has already started his two-year mandate, WADA said on Monday. Ieva Lukosiute-Stanikuniene, the director of the Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency, will